Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Li Chien-hung (TIME, Nov. 10) was one candidate who tasted both the sweet and the sour. Slim, husky-voiced Miss Li, 31, a Kuomintang member for only two years, was popular for helping families in her Nanking ward to get relief and jobs. But her rival, Miss Liu Heng-ching, a dignified veteran of 20 years in the Kuomintang, pressed the claims of long and dutiful party service. What to do? Miss Liu proposed a deal: if popular Miss Li withdrew, veteran Miss Liu would serve only half her three-year term, resign in favor of Miss...
Jubilance. Such had been Eisenhower's edge in the presidential race that all other candidates of both parties were jubilant. Candidate Stassen was encouraged enough to challenge Bob Taft in his own Ohio primary. Deweymen, who had privately feared Eisenhower more than any other rival, breathed relief and renewed confidence. So did Taftmen, more secure than ever in the affections of the party regulars...
Last week Louisiana went to the polls and cast a record primary vote which gave Earl Long a better than 100,000 margin over his nearest rival, "Sad" Sam Jones. Ex-Governor Jones had stood on the more prosaic platform of "good government...
After we lost the election some of my colleagues determined to try the experiment of a rival newspaper. I gave my support to this venture but took no active part in it, so the story of the Harvard Journal must come from someone else. I never felt that there was room for two papers at Harvard and, so far as I personally was concerned, I hoped that, if the Journal had succeeded, the two papers would soon have been merged under the name of the CRIMSON. This was not to be, as the Journal barely lived through the spring...
...paper had become a weekly, but the harried atmosphere of news reporting was not apparent until the rival Harvard Herald began putting out extras on sports events which Boston papers credited with being "the fastest ever known in the newspaper world." The more staid CRIMSON met this threat to supremacy by amalgamating with the Herald in a bargain which gave the CRIMSON every conceivable advantage, and henceforth it became a daily...